Prometheus 6

This vouchers for private schools crap is more to subsidize the private schools than to educate the kids.

1,900 Scholarships
Del. Norton moves to take a valued educational option from the poor.
Thursday, June 12, 2008; A22

DEL. ELEANOR Holmes Norton's campaign against school vouchers in the District has hit a new low. While proclaiming a desire to protect children, she is seeking to eliminate a program that benefits them and that is valued by their parents. Her actions make it all the more urgent for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty to convince Congress that the educational interests of children are more important than party ideology. Failure to do so would imperil not just the 1,900 children in the scholarship program but the essence of school reform in the District.